Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain $160,900,000 France 30,000,000 Poland 6,265,000 Italy 5,000,000 Belgium 3,840,000 Czechoslovakia 3,000,000 Esthonia 483,410 Finland 314,890 Lithuania 210,100 Latvia 201,640 Roumania 200,000 Jugoslavia 200,000 Hungary 67,588 Grand Total...
...this any departure from sound and vigorous truth. As announced in this morning's CRIMSON, the newsboys have taken to arms and refuse to continue their matutinal tasks without remuneration commensurate with their, desires. And this of course centers the grand crisis upon the CRIMSON. Alone against the world of organized labor this periodical must stand--or at least that part of the world which delivers the CRIMSON to the breakfast tables--or breakfast arms of Cambridge...
...shock of white hair, more than 27 years' service in Congress* and the chairmanship of the Committee on Agriculture of the House make Gilbert Nelson Haugen a grand old man. Last week he had cause to celebrate. In the first place he had his birthday and entered upon his 68th year, and in the second place farm relief legislation began to pop to the fore, and farm relief is his business...
...other etcher of this time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment on the trip when, looking back to Manhattan, you see the city cleft by the canyon of Broadway. I say that the Grand Canyon has nothing to equal that sight...
...Significance. Brilliant Gilbert Frankau, the author, intended, it would seem, to write a novel on a grand scale of deep British significance. Modern English landscape, modern London streets, horse-racing, prizefighting, tea parties, labor strikes, auctions, motoring?the story ventures thrillingly up and down the land. Perhaps most thrilling of all is the politics. No mean orator himself, Mr. Frankau introduces a fascinating Jewish playwright to wax eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology...